It's been a while since I moved my blog to Pelican + Github + Travis + S3. At the risk of only blogging about how I build this blog, I thought I'd do a follow up post to Continuos Blogging.
I'm going to give a lighting talk at the Auckland Continuous Delivery meetup on how I build the blog and there were a few improvements I wanted to get done before the talk. Here's what I did to improve the site's performance.
In my last post, I talked about moving from Blogger to the blog aware static site generator Pelican.
Using make to compile markdown files in to html with a python tool started giving me ideas. The blog's source was already in github and it made sense to move the compilation to an automated tool. Automate everything.
Hello! Welcome to the updated jessek.co.nz.
Blogger wasn't really working out. A wysiwyg editor is nice and all but code snippets looked awful and the template was over the top. I wanted something simpler for my blog and something new to try out.